For those who need it translated, I've put it through babelfish for you (English->German->English) Enjoy!
Lindows against Windows: Court battle retarded
Microsoft must produce more proof, in order to support its registered trade mark process.
Scarlet Pruitt, IDG news service Monday, March 03, to support 2003
Federal High Court Microsoft ordered to produce more than 300 boxes proof around its requirements in a registered trade mark complaint against software start Lindows.com and in the case from one April to Decembers back pressed the jury attempt.
retarded, announced by Lindows Monday, comes as welcome discharge for San Diego, California, company, which said in a statement that it is during the extra time, for the case to prepare gratefully.
name play Lindows, which offers an inexpensive Linux created operating system, which is compatible with popular Microsoft document formats, has against the software giant for more than one year over the similarity between the Windows and Lindows to names fought.
during Microsoft stated that "window" is obviously a registered registered trade mark, argues Lindows that window is a generic name for a certain kind program interface, those predates talking moon, Washington, Anspruch of the company.
United States the district court for the western district of Washington in Seattle Microsoft ordered to produce the proof that its requirements, including which 1992 against the software, which is giant, said Lindows supports documents from box of the Apple computer. In this case complained Apple Microsoft for the copyright infringement, which stated that the Windows reflected graphic user interface the view and the feeling of its Macintosh of desk. Apple lost the complaint.
schauen in Windows Lindows of requirements however that the documents of the case proof contain that the designations "window," "icons are used," and "menus" generally in the computer business and not characteristic of any a company are.
ordered the boxes, the court Microsoft to produce, is expected, in order to contain certification by the dozens of witnesses, court copies, and proof, which "window representation systems" were developed in the seventies and eighties before Microsoft and Apple their developed, Lindows line advice Daniel Harris said in a statement.
Microsoft originally arranged complaint against Lindows for registered trade mark injury in the December of 2001. Despite the efforts to achieve a provisional order against the niche software producer requests Microsofts were refused.
was originally pressed now the jury attempt, fixed for April 7, 2003, back to December 1.
product Plans during the companies in a certified Duel locked are, have Lindows employ distribution agreements signed. Walmart.com sells inexpensive PC with the LindowsOS preloaded, as well as unmarried versions of the software. Retail businesses of electronics roasted sell also the LindowsOS.
during a court defeat as damaging impact Lindows and to company-to founders and to the general manager Michael Robertson come could, because now, the company has model bank account on its inexpensive business. And Robertson, which precedes MP3.com also up, said in a statement that he is convinced that the new proof supports case Lindows.
anybody of Microsoft was not immediately existing Monday to commentate to the court order.
Trolls are meant to provoke responses by writing something that is pretty ridiculous and/or offensive. Your post was (yes, unintentionally) offensive to those who get upwards of 10 calls a night. It shouldn't be chalked up as "careless" - it simply shouldn't happen. And it is a serious disruption when your phone becomes essentially useless because of the exceptionally low signal to noise ratio.
You're requesting the ads - why? To continue the movie analogy, there's nothing stopping you from showing up 4 minutes 36 into the movie, and saving your employer that much.
Your computer is sending out a request "Hey - let me see this animated gif", the server is simply satisfying that request. There are enough tools out there to prevent 99% of this, so it can only be assumed that you want to see all of that "content".
IIRC, The Journal of Irreproducible had a competition for the best theories (in anything). One of the winners was the theory that yawning is meant to equalize the pressure between your sinuses (I believe) and the external environment. However, when you do this, you create a tiny pressure change in the environment, which causes everyone else to have to equalize:)
The winner of the contest was the theory that if a piece of buttered bread always lands butter side down, and a cat always lands on his feet...you can attach a piece of buttered bread to the back of a cat and drop it, and it will hover a few inches above the ground, slowly rotating.
That's the most successful troll I've ever seen! +3 Insightful? Look - the guy just said that OSS has no chance against microsoft, and it's time to quit - we've reached our goal.
Either that, or the moderators really do find that insightful. I find it a bit - well - flameish?
That's not to say the artist is lazy. But maybe he doesn't care about money as much as he cares about the music. If you can have your music produced, promo'd, have your booking taken care of, etc, etc, etc - and still make a living - that's great. You reach a larger number of people - you get to live the dream. And I'm in a moderately successful unsigned band - the other 50% of making music is crap. You have to walk around in the cold postering. You have to call bar/venue owners six or seven times if you've never played there before. And you have no contacts in other cities - you have to fight for every venue that gets to know you.
Yes, there are booking agencies that will do these individual things without having to sign away half your rights, but signing with a label gives you a chance to - with a single scratch of the pen - get rid of every headache you suffer as a musician.
Don't get me wrong - you shouldn't expect that the large labels are going to treat you with even an ounce of respect. But the benefits can outweigh the disadvantages.
1) DVDs fit in computer hardware (DVD drives) - VHS films do not fit in Betamax hardware
2) No one is stealing anything. They're simply getting purchased products to work on their equipment.
3) There is no law against distributing information on getting a VHS film to play in a Betamax player.
If I owned a BM player that was easily modded to a VHS player back when VHS had obviously won the battle, I'd mod it rather than purchasing a whole new player.
Basic counterpoint: If someone says "mail a letter to me here. I'll keep it confidential", and then gives you this magazines "letters to the editor" address, it doesn't give the magazine the right to publish your mail. Especially if you put a copyright notice on it. Sure, the guy who told you to mail it may be guilty of fraud. But that's probably true for a lot of the people selling "opt-in" mailing lists. It doesn't negate the copyright of the people who send out the material.
Your Rights Online: But what about the glassblowers? Posted by Hemos on Friday, November 29, @7:32PM from the 500-pound-gorilla-named-Steve dept. Clevername writes "It's not like we didn't see it coming. Micro$oft has apparently decided once again that all our Windows are belong to them. This time they're attempting to stop the use of the word Windows in all software packages but their own. This has affected such software packages as Total Commander (nee Windows Commander) and Farsighter (nee Windows Spy). When will the madness end? Another reader pointed us to this list of potential targets. Will I have to start getting Microsoft's prmission to rennovate my house?
Here's an excerpt from the definition at dictionary.com.
...3: of or relating to or resembling Pyrrhus or his exploits (especially his sustaining staggering losses in order to defeat the Romans); "a Pyrrhic victory"...
Apparently the great-grandparent post was quite the excellent troll to get this far down, but I feel the need to reply to this. It's about your first two points - about science not being a religion and science creating provable explanations. I'm a science guy myself, but I'm willing to admit that there are things we can never know. There's the VR-reality bit - where everything around us could just be a simulation of a world which has vastly different physics than the world we actually live in.
The most basic problem, though, is the idea that because something happened before, it will happen again. We have no proof for this assertion, and every scientist (and almost every other human) has faith in it. Who's to say that the universe doesn't change it's physical laws randomly, at random times? Maybe there are no constants!
It's easy to dismiss these thoughts. You *have* to to get on with your daily life. You wouldn't be able to do anything with the knowledge that maybe next time you made a sandwich, it would shoot lightening at you. And it would be stupid to do so.
All I'm saying is that there are basic assumptions that all humans take "on faith". A lot of people will laugh and say "well, that's so improbable as to be impossible". But what do we have to hold up that assertion? Our previous experience.
Until now, Solaris has been based on MSB (Most Significant Bit) technology, which made it incompatible with many PC devices. For instance, you couldn't network a Solaris and PC machine without going to the TCP/IP level, because what would leave the Solaris machine as
11100000 00000111
woule return as
00000111 11100000
As you can tell, this was a major PITA. I, for one, am glad that I'll be able to use all my favourite hardware on my Solaris machine now.
It's a list of bills that each candidate in your area voted on, and radio buttons for yay or nay. Oh - and a plain-english version of each of the bills. You can choose to count absents as a -1 or a 0. Click submit, and the selections of the candidates is compared to yours, and you get told how to vote (with a "view results" button for those busybodies who want to know why). This would cause some trouble for people who haven't been elected before, but between two experienced politicians, it might work well.
Canada and other places MPs are elected by proportionallity. IE, the party will give the election board a list of potential canidates, then seats are given by the total number of votes across the whole country, not the individual district.
Sorry - simply untrue. We've got (approximately) the same system as you guys. One candidate from each party in an area. Person with the most votes wins.
Vote splits are a problem, as you say. But they don't neccessarily lead to parties merging. We've had a merge between two of the more right-wing parties happening for the past four years or so, with very little progress.
If the laser can move it's targetting area quick enough, why bother predicting where the object is going? Just fire a low-power targetting laser at it to ensure you've hit the right spot (round trip time to confirm : 2 x distance / c)), then fire the full-powered laser once you have confirmation (time to hit target = distance/c). I doubt the target's going anywhere in those coupla nanoseconds.
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It IS easier to mod you down than to post an inteligent reply.
I hope you intended to misspell intelligent.
For those who need it translated, I've put it through babelfish for you (English->German->English) Enjoy!
Lindows against Windows: Court battle retarded
Microsoft must produce more proof, in order to support its registered trade mark process.
Scarlet Pruitt, IDG news service Monday, March 03, to support 2003
Federal High Court Microsoft ordered to produce more than 300 boxes proof around its requirements in a registered trade mark complaint against software start Lindows.com and in the case from one April to Decembers back pressed the jury attempt.
retarded, announced by Lindows Monday, comes as welcome discharge for San Diego, California, company, which said in a statement that it is during the extra time, for the case to prepare gratefully.
name play
Lindows, which offers an inexpensive Linux created operating system, which is compatible with popular Microsoft document formats, has against the software giant for more than one year over the similarity between the Windows and Lindows to names fought.
during Microsoft stated that "window" is obviously a registered registered trade mark, argues Lindows that window is a generic name for a certain kind program interface, those predates talking moon, Washington, Anspruch of the company.
United States the district court for the western district of Washington in Seattle Microsoft ordered to produce the proof that its requirements, including which 1992 against the software, which is giant, said Lindows supports documents from box of the Apple computer. In this case complained Apple Microsoft for the copyright infringement, which stated that the Windows reflected graphic user interface the view and the feeling of its Macintosh of desk. Apple lost the complaint.
schauen in Windows
Lindows of requirements however that the documents of the case proof contain that the designations "window," "icons are used," and "menus" generally in the computer business and not characteristic of any a company are.
ordered the boxes, the court Microsoft to produce, is expected, in order to contain certification by the dozens of witnesses, court copies, and proof, which "window representation systems" were developed in the seventies and eighties before Microsoft and Apple their developed, Lindows line advice Daniel Harris said in a statement.
Microsoft originally arranged complaint against Lindows for registered trade mark injury in the December of 2001. Despite the efforts to achieve a provisional order against the niche software producer requests Microsofts were refused.
was originally pressed now the jury attempt, fixed for April 7, 2003, back to December 1.
product Plans
during the companies in a certified Duel locked are, have Lindows employ distribution agreements signed. Walmart.com sells inexpensive PC with the LindowsOS preloaded, as well as unmarried versions of the software. Retail businesses of electronics roasted sell also the LindowsOS.
during a court defeat as damaging impact Lindows and to company-to founders and to the general manager Michael Robertson come could, because now, the company has model bank account on its inexpensive business. And Robertson, which precedes MP3.com also up, said in a statement that he is convinced that the new proof supports case Lindows.
anybody of Microsoft was not immediately existing Monday to commentate to the court order.
It's not often that "time remaining" keeps going up on my downloads.
Trolls are meant to provoke responses by writing something that is pretty ridiculous and/or offensive. Your post was (yes, unintentionally) offensive to those who get upwards of 10 calls a night. It shouldn't be chalked up as "careless" - it simply shouldn't happen. And it is a serious disruption when your phone becomes essentially useless because of the exceptionally low signal to noise ratio.
Is it a stupid criteria? Maybe. But it's a criteria nonetheless.
And the nitpick award goes to....me!
Criterion - not criteria.
Thank me for pecking at your each and every perceived deficiency.
James
You're requesting the ads - why? To continue the movie analogy, there's nothing stopping you from showing up 4 minutes 36 into the movie, and saving your employer that much.
Your computer is sending out a request "Hey - let me see this animated gif", the server is simply satisfying that request. There are enough tools out there to prevent 99% of this, so it can only be assumed that you want to see all of that "content".
IIRC, The Journal of Irreproducible had a competition for the best theories (in anything). One of the winners was the theory that yawning is meant to equalize the pressure between your sinuses (I believe) and the external environment. However, when you do this, you create a tiny pressure change in the environment, which causes everyone else to have to equalize :)
The winner of the contest was the theory that if a piece of buttered bread always lands butter side down, and a cat always lands on his feet...you can attach a piece of buttered bread to the back of a cat and drop it, and it will hover a few inches above the ground, slowly rotating.
That's the most successful troll I've ever seen! +3 Insightful? Look - the guy just said that OSS has no chance against microsoft, and it's time to quit - we've reached our goal.
Either that, or the moderators really do find that insightful. I find it a bit - well - flameish?
That is all.
Dagnabbit, my mod points ran out yesterday. Just wanted to give you a pseudo-mod +1 Great Post.
It's Easy.
That's not to say the artist is lazy. But maybe he doesn't care about money as much as he cares about the music. If you can have your music produced, promo'd, have your booking taken care of, etc, etc, etc - and still make a living - that's great. You reach a larger number of people - you get to live the dream. And I'm in a moderately successful unsigned band - the other 50% of making music is crap. You have to walk around in the cold postering. You have to call bar/venue owners six or seven times if you've never played there before. And you have no contacts in other cities - you have to fight for every venue that gets to know you.
Yes, there are booking agencies that will do these individual things without having to sign away half your rights, but signing with a label gives you a chance to - with a single scratch of the pen - get rid of every headache you suffer as a musician.
Don't get me wrong - you shouldn't expect that the large labels are going to treat you with even an ounce of respect. But the benefits can outweigh the disadvantages.
Not even a very creative troll.
1) DVDs fit in computer hardware (DVD drives) - VHS films do not fit in Betamax hardware
2) No one is stealing anything. They're simply getting purchased products to work on their equipment.
3) There is no law against distributing information on getting a VHS film to play in a Betamax player.
If I owned a BM player that was easily modded to a VHS player back when VHS had obviously won the battle, I'd mod it rather than purchasing a whole new player.
Thank you.
Thanks AC, I didn't want to be pedantic (note spelling - greenrd's law applies) in pointing that out, but you summarized it quite nicely.
This thread has gone on long enough.
Basic counterpoint: If someone says "mail a letter to me here. I'll keep it confidential", and then gives you this magazines "letters to the editor" address, it doesn't give the magazine the right to publish your mail. Especially if you put a copyright notice on it. Sure, the guy who told you to mail it may be guilty of fraud. But that's probably true for a lot of the people selling "opt-in" mailing lists. It doesn't negate the copyright of the people who send out the material.
Posted by Hemos on Friday, November 29, @7:32PM
from the 500-pound-gorilla-named-Steve dept.
Clevername writes "It's not like we didn't see it coming. Micro$oft has apparently decided once again that all our Windows are belong to them. This time they're attempting to stop the use of the word Windows in all software packages but their own. This has affected such software packages as Total Commander (nee Windows Commander) and Farsighter (nee Windows Spy). When will the madness end? Another reader pointed us to this list of potential targets. Will I have to start getting Microsoft's prmission to rennovate my house?
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Just a single niggling nitpick - his name was actually Indigo (if you read the book). His name was never *once* said clearly in the movie.
Hey! I recognize that sig! Screw this, I'm going to play DotT.
Why are users banner-blind?
Apparently the great-grandparent post was quite the excellent troll to get this far down, but I feel the need to reply to this. It's about your first two points - about science not being a religion and science creating provable explanations. I'm a science guy myself, but I'm willing to admit that there are things we can never know. There's the VR-reality bit - where everything around us could just be a simulation of a world which has vastly different physics than the world we actually live in.
The most basic problem, though, is the idea that because something happened before, it will happen again. We have no proof for this assertion, and every scientist (and almost every other human) has faith in it. Who's to say that the universe doesn't change it's physical laws randomly, at random times? Maybe there are no constants!
It's easy to dismiss these thoughts. You *have* to to get on with your daily life. You wouldn't be able to do anything with the knowledge that maybe next time you made a sandwich, it would shoot lightening at you. And it would be stupid to do so.
All I'm saying is that there are basic assumptions that all humans take "on faith". A lot of people will laugh and say "well, that's so improbable as to be impossible". But what do we have to hold up that assertion? Our previous experience.
Dude! Informative?! It's a f*&@ing joke!
Until now, Solaris has been based on MSB (Most Significant Bit) technology, which made it incompatible with many PC devices. For instance, you couldn't network a Solaris and PC machine without going to the TCP/IP level, because what would leave the Solaris machine as
11100000 00000111
woule return as
00000111 11100000
As you can tell, this was a major PITA. I, for one, am glad that I'll be able to use all my favourite hardware on my Solaris machine now.
You've given me a cool idea.
www.howdoivote.com
It's a list of bills that each candidate in your area voted on, and radio buttons for yay or nay. Oh - and a plain-english version of each of the bills. You can choose to count absents as a -1 or a 0. Click submit, and the selections of the candidates is compared to yours, and you get told how to vote (with a "view results" button for those busybodies who want to know why). This would cause some trouble for people who haven't been elected before, but between two experienced politicians, it might work well.
Sorry - simply untrue. We've got (approximately) the same system as you guys. One candidate from each party in an area. Person with the most votes wins.
Vote splits are a problem, as you say. But they don't neccessarily lead to parties merging. We've had a merge between two of the more right-wing parties happening for the past four years or so, with very little progress.
If the laser can move it's targetting area quick enough, why bother predicting where the object is going? Just fire a low-power targetting laser at it to ensure you've hit the right spot (round trip time to confirm : 2 x distance / c)), then fire the full-powered laser once you have confirmation (time to hit target = distance/c). I doubt the target's going anywhere in those coupla nanoseconds.